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Originally Posted by antoniseb
The energy absorbed by the collisions will mostly be used to heat the spacecraft's hull...
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I figured it was some friction based thing, but is the degree of heating something that would be known already?
I can see where it might be something that ship designers might need to take into account once travel like this is possible, but is the amount of heat transfer something that we could figure out without actually being out there to get the values?